Journal article
5-hydroxymethylcytosine marks regions with reduced mutation frequency in human DNA.
- Abstract:
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CpG dinucleotides are the main mutational hot-spot in most cancers. The characteristic elevated C>T mutation rate in CpG sites has been related to 5-methylcytosine (5mC), an epigenetically modified base which resides in CpGs and plays a role in transcription silencing. In brain nearly a third of 5mCs have recently been found to exist in the form of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), yet the effect of 5hmC on mutational processes is still poorly understood. Here we show that 5hmC is associated...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Funding agency for:
McClellan, M
Kriaucionis, S
Grant:
BB/M001873/1
BB/M001873/1
+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Tomkova, M
Grant:
EP/F500394/1
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- eLife Sciences Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- eLife Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- e17082
- Publication date:
- 2016-05-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-13
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2050-084X
- Pmid:
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27183007
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:619463
- UUID:
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uuid:0701115b-86f8-444e-b9f4-02c13900b610
- Local pid:
- pubs:619463
- Source identifiers:
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619463
- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-01
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- Copyright holder:
- © 2016, Tomkova et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016, Tomkova et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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